FINAL COMMUNIQUE SALES OFFICE 2006
500 m2 in the heart of the Kursaal Convention Centre
The 54th edition of the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival opened a new Sales Office to serve the needs of film industry professionals, buyers and sellers. The new venue covers 500 m2 of office space in the heart of the Kursaal Convention Centre designed to facilitate contacts and meetings, and provide areas for viewing films and displaying promotional material for films that are either finished or in production.
The Sales Office would like to thank the following organisations for their collaboration: the MEDIA Plus Programme of the European Union, EGEDA (Body for the Management of Audiovisual Producers Rights), ICEX (Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade).), Madrid Film Commission, Cinema Do Brasil and Jaman.
ATTENDANCE
FILM LIBRARY
ACTIVITIES
CINEMA IN MOTION 2
Presentation to industry professionals of unfinished projects and films by filmmakers from the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries, organised in partnership with the Amiens festival in France and the Fribourg festival in Switzerland, and with collaboration from the African Cinema Festival of Tarifa.
59 participants, 39 entities, 14 countries.
Programme:
Awards:
FILMS IN PROGRESS 10
Sponsored by the Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival and Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine in Toulouse, Films in Progress is geared toward Latin American and Spanish feature length films in the post-production stage.
184 participants, 124 entities, 18 countries.
Programme
Awards
CINEMA AND REGIONS IN EUROPE DAY
SPONSORS:
PROFESSIONAL AGENDA AT THE FESTIVAL
Friday 22
09h00-18h15 - Hotel Aránzazu
European Films Crossing Borders (closed) - www.eufilmscrossingborders.com
09h00-18h00- Hotel Aránzazu
Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders (closed) – www.mfcb.org
16h30-19h30 – Hotel María Cristina
Programa Raíces Annual Meeting (closed)
21h00 – (place to confirm)
Opening cocktail party organised by the Sales Office and Cinema do Brasil (with pass)
Saturday 23
09h30-18h00 – Hotel Aránzazu
European Films Crossing Borders (closed) - www.eufilmscrossingborders.com
09h00-18h00- Hotel Aránzazu
Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders (closed) - www.mfcb.org
10h00-14h00 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Room 8
Media Programme and European Distributors Meeting (with pass)
17h00-19h00 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Room 8
Information meeting on the Euromed Cinémas aid programme. Sunday 24
09h30-13h00 – Hotel Aránzazu
European Films Crossing Borders (closed) - www.eufilmscrossingborders.com
09h30-12h45 - Hotel Aránzazu
Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders (closed) - www.mfcb.org
10h00-13h30 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Room 8
European Producers Club working meetings (closed)
15h30-19h00 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Room 9
European Producers Club working meetings (closed)
14h00-15h00 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Rooms 8 and 9
FAPAE press conference
16h00-17h00 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Room 8
Europa Cinémas working meeting with Latin American distributors (closed)
17h00-19h00 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Room 8
AECI working meeting with African professionals within the framework of Cinema in Motion 2 (closed)
Monday 25
10h00-17h00
Meeting between European Film Agencies Directors (EFAD) from 25 EU countries (closed).
10h00-20h00 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Room 8
Cinema do Brasil delegation working meetings (closed)
10h00-19h00 – Cine Príncipe 10
Cinema in Motion 2 (accredited professionals)
11h00-14h30 – Hotel Maria Cristina – Elcano Lounge
Andalusian Audiovisual Day
12h00-14h00 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Room 9
Meeting between Audiovisuales S.G.R. (Sociedad de Garantía Recíproca) and ARIBSAN (Agencia Iberoamericana del Registro ISAN).
13h00 – Hotel María Cristina - Elcano Lounge
Presentation of the Andalucía Film Commission (invitation)
14h00-16h30 – Unión Artesana (Cines Príncipe)
AECI working meeting with Latin American distributors within the framework of Cinema in Motion 2 (closed)
20h00 – Kursaal – Zinemaldi Plaza
Welcome to Films in Progress 10.
Tuesday 26
09h30-19h00 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Room 8
Association of European Cities and Regions for Culture Meeting
10h00-14h00 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Room 9
Spain Film Commission Meeting (closed)
10h00-16h00 – Cine Príncipe 9
Films in Progress 10
14h00 – Kubo Gallery
Zabaltegi meetings: announcement of the Cinema in Motion 2 Awards
14h00-16h00 - Zurriola Marítimo
French-Spanish coproduction lunch organised by the Commission du Film d’Île de France and the Madrid Film Commission (private)
19h00 – FNAC
“Films in Progress, from 1 to 10,” followed by the screening of Historias Mínimas
Wednesday 27
10h00-20h00 – Cine Príncipe 9
Films in Progress 10
10h00-23h00 - Cine Príncipe 6 and 7
Basque Cinema Day and presentation of the AMA LUR, IBAIA and BERRIA Awards.
13h00-14h30 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Room 9
Presentation of the coordinator Filmad and Animadrid.
15h30-16h30 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Room 9
Presentation of the DreamAgo association
17h00-19h00 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Room 9
Independent distribution and censorship in the USA
20h00 – Kursaal – Zinemaldi Plaza
Welcome to the V International Film School Meeting
21h30 – Kursaal 2
Presentation of the Films in Progress 10 Awards
Thursday 28
09h30-14h00 – Kursaal – Sales Office, Rooms 8 and 9
II Trans-Pyrenean Coproduction Forum
10h00-18h00 – Cine Príncipe 9
V International Film School Meeting
15h30-19h00 – Kursaal - Sales Office, Rooms 8 and 9Europe, Cinema and Regions Day
19h00 – Kursaal 2
Presentation of the European Personality of the Year Award to Luciana Castellina
Friday 29
10h00-18h00 – Príncipe 9
V International Film School Meeting
16h00-17h00 – Kursaal Sales Office, Room 8
Presentation of the company Ubik Visual EffectsSaturday 30
10h00-12h00 – Kursaal Sales Office, Room 9
First Team “Speed mitings” (closed)
12h30-13h30 – Kursaal Sales Office, Room 9
V International Film School Meeting – Debate: "Film and acting students: separated by a camera?”
Saturday 30
10h00-12h00 – Kursaal Sales Office, Room 9
First Team “Speed mitings” (closed)
12h30-13h30 – Kursaal Sales Office, Room 9
V International Film School Meeting – Debate: "Film and acting students: separated by a camera?”
SPONSORS:
Numerous activities will underline the peculiar European aspect of the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival, while stressing its condition of privileged meeting place for moviemakers and professionals from different continents.
In collaboration with the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the Festival will continue to highlight the important part played in film projects born in Europe by non-state public institutions and entities.
The European rendezvous planned for this year’s Festival include:
On Thursday, 28th September, Europe Day, the Sales Office will propose an activity programme closing with presentation of the European Personality of the Year Award to Luciana Castellina.
Ex-Eurodeputy for the Italian Radical Party and ex-Chairwoman of the Commission for Culture and Media of the European Parliament, Luciana Castellina will be the personality acclaimed by the Festival this year for her demanding, untiring work in favour of the development of European cinema while respecting its diversity as a source of creative wealth.
The San Sebastian International Film Festival reserves this yearly award for a personality standing out for having given a decisive boost to European cinema from different areas not always known to the public.
The first of these awards went in 2004 to European Commissioner Viviane Reding and the second was shared in 2005 by Claude Miller and Claude-Eric Poiroux, President and Director General of Europa Cinémas.
The programme for Thursday 28th will include the following rendezvous:
PROGRAMME
10h00
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Trans-Pyrenean Coproduction Forum. |
15h30
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Joint intervention of those responsible for audiovisual matters in the CTP regions. |
16h30
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Daniele Nerenzi will present “Bentornato Signor Gai”, an unpublished screenplay by Federico Fellini. |
17h00
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Meeting with the Executive Secretary of Eurimages, Jan Vandierendonck. |
18h00
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Meeting with Luciana Castellina. |
21h30
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Presentation of the European Personality of the Year Award (Kursaal 2) |
For further information: www.sansebastianfestival.com
Contact: salesoffice@sansebastianfestival.com
Luciana Castellina,
European Personality of the Year Award
Thursday, 28th September 2006
Born in Rome on 9th August 1929, she is a Law graduate and journalist, Deputy in the Italian and European Parliaments (1976-1999). At the European Parliament she was Chairwoman of the European Commission on Culture and Media, of the External Economic Relations Committee and Vice-President of the Delegation to South America. She was the President of Italia Cinema, the agency for the international promotion of Italian cinema, from 1998 until 2002.
She is currently President of the Viareggio European Film Festival, Honorary President of “cineuropa.org”, an online publication in four languages on European cinema, coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the Istituto Luce-Città della scienza Documentary School (Naples), member of the Board of Directors of the Vittorio Gassman Foundation and of other cultural foundations, and member of the UCCA (Unione Circoli del Cinema dell’Arci) presidency. She is resident lecturer at the University of Pisa Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Department of Communication Sciences.